A Student’s Garden of Terrors

David M. Whalen on Fearing Rightly

I live in a world of fears, terrors, tremors, and even midnight screams. Any
of you who have children know what I mean. G. K. Chesterton once remarked
that a child’s world is naturally and properly laced with terror, and
any attempt to purge a child’s world of its traces in song or story is
both foolish and futile. Deprive a child of terror, and the child will invent
it.

Some weeks ago, I was awakened by the sobbing scream of my daughter, calling
out in the dark, half awakened by her own bad dream. This is an old drill. I
staggered down the hall, calling softly, lest her cries awaken and terrify the
multitude of
. . .

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